Why did Obama travel to Moscow in an armored limousine at 80 mph (130 km/h)?
The answer is in the article. Barack Obama’s departure to Russia became a huge event in the United States. Obama, his wife Michelle and their daughters Sacha and Malia arrived at an air base near Washington on Sunday. Afterwards, the family boarded the presidential Boeing-747-200B.
Obama’s airplane is a three-decked jetliner with a conference room, a study, a shower, several bedrooms and a gym. The plane can be used as a mobile command post in case of a nuclear war. The liner can fly a distance of up to 15,000 kilometers without refueling.
Obama’s plane landed at Moscow’s Vnukovo-2 Airport. There was no honor guard to greet Obama in Moscow because the US president arrived for a work, not for a state visit. Mr. Obama and his family disembarked the plane and got into an armored limousine, which took them to the Kremlin.
It took the procession of the US president only 15 minutes to get from the airport to the Kremlin. The cars were traveling at the speed of 130 km/h. The traffic on Moscow’s Leninsky Prospekt was entirely blocked for that time.
A source from Russian law-enforcement agencies said that the speed was chosen for safety reasons. If a car travels at the speed of 110 km/h, it is practically impossible for a sniper to take it as a target, the source told Life.ru website.
Barack and Michelle Obama named their younger daughter as Natasha (also known as Sasha) in honor of Natalia Goncharova, the wife of the Great Russian poet Alexander Pushkin. Obama said in one of his interviews prior to his visit to Moscow that he liked the work of Alexander Pushkin very much.
Russia and the USA signed a new agreement on cooperation as a result of the meeting between the presidents of the two countries in Moscow. The agreement will give an opportunity to retrieve the military cooperation, which was ceased in August of 2008, and will create conditions to take the cooperation to a new level, Interfax reports.
The work plan of defense cooperation between the two countries for 2009 stipulates about 20 joint military drills, which will be held before the end of the current year.
Nikolai Makarov, the chief of Russia’s General Staff, told reporters that the joint drills would be held, albeit not this year.
http://english.pravda.ru/russia/kremlin/07-07-2009/107990-obama_moscow-0
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Obama’s airplane is a three-decked jetliner with a conference room, a study, a shower, several bedrooms and a gym. The plane can be used as a mobile command post in case of a nuclear war. The liner can fly a distance of up to 15,000 kilometers without refueling.
Obama’s plane landed at Moscow’s Vnukovo-2 Airport. There was no honor guard to greet Obama in Moscow because the US president arrived for a work, not for a state visit. Mr. Obama and his family disembarked the plane and got into an armored limousine, which took them to the Kremlin.
It took the procession of the US president only 15 minutes to get from the airport to the Kremlin. The cars were traveling at the speed of 130 km/h. The traffic on Moscow’s Leninsky Prospekt was entirely blocked for that time.
A source from Russian law-enforcement agencies said that the speed was chosen for safety reasons. If a car travels at the speed of 110 km/h, it is practically impossible for a sniper to take it as a target, the source told Life.ru website.
Barack and Michelle Obama named their younger daughter as Natasha (also known as Sasha) in honor of Natalia Goncharova, the wife of the Great Russian poet Alexander Pushkin. Obama said in one of his interviews prior to his visit to Moscow that he liked the work of Alexander Pushkin very much.
Russia and the USA signed a new agreement on cooperation as a result of the meeting between the presidents of the two countries in Moscow. The agreement will give an opportunity to retrieve the military cooperation, which was ceased in August of 2008, and will create conditions to take the cooperation to a new level, Interfax reports.
The work plan of defense cooperation between the two countries for 2009 stipulates about 20 joint military drills, which will be held before the end of the current year.
Nikolai Makarov, the chief of Russia’s General Staff, told reporters that the joint drills would be held, albeit not this year.
http://english.pravda.ru/russia/kremlin/07-07-2009/107990-obama_moscow-0
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